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外刊例句
- The worst-case scenario is that the flow of these vital raw materials is cut off as tensions escalate.
最坏的情况是,随着紧张局势升级,这些重要原材料的流动中断。
——《经济学人》 - To prepare for the worst worst-case scenario, some doomers prefer daily staples like tampons, vegetable seeds and cigarettes (that timeless prison medium of exchange) to silver or gold as an alt-currency.
为了应对最最糟糕的情况,一些末日论者更喜欢把日常物资,比如卫生棉条、蔬菜种子和香烟(监狱中永不过时的硬通货),当作替代货币来囤积,而不是白银或黄金。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] a written outline of a movie, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes
[名词] 电影、小说或舞台作品的书面概述,给出故事情节和单独场景的细节
深入解读
Scenario 一词与熟词 scene 同源,都是源自拉丁语 scena (场景),由晚期拉丁语 scenarius (舞台场景的)经意大利语 scenario 于1868年进入英语,最初用来表示“一部戏剧作品的情节概述”,现在则泛指电影、小说或舞台作品等的“剧本提纲、情节梗概、脚本、分镜头剧本”,即给出故事情节和单独场景的细节的书面概述。
等到了1960年后,同小站(微信公众号:田间小站)之前推送过的 escalate 一样,受当时可能爆发核战争的局势影响, scenario 开始用来表示现在的主要含义指“设想、方案”或者说“可能发生的事态、局面、情况”,即对未来可能发生的行动或事件的概要叙述,或者说想象中的按照假定顺序发展的一系列事件,比如:
- 有好几种可能出现的局面。他必须努力才能避免失败。
There are several possible scenarios. In order to avert failure he would have to exert himself.
影视用例
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From a thief's point of view, this is worst-case scenario.
从一个贼的角度来看,这是最糟糕的情况。
出自2006年上映的美国动作电影《碟中谍3》(Mission: Impossible III)。
同近义词
- plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
- outline: a general description or plan giving the essential features of something but not the detail
- storyline: the plot of a novel, play, movie, or other narrative form